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Congress’s political narrative has won in Karnataka throwing the BJP out of power in the state. It clearly shows that the political narrative brought forward by the party and its leader Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra and election campaigns in the state have become more popular than the narrative brought forward by the PM Narendra Modi and the BJP. However, to repeat Karnataka elsewhere in five states that are going to polls later this year and the Lok Sabha election 2024, Congress will need a multi-pronged strategy to take care of other factors coming in their way to success.

Under pressure from globalised finance capital, most countries of the world have enacted legislation fixing the size of the fiscal deficit as a proportion of GDP; generally it is 3 percent, and in India it is 3 per cent for the centre and 3 per cent for the states. The US however has no such legislation; instead what it has is a ceiling on the absolute stock of public debt that can be held at any point of time. This is a very odd procedure, for as the economy grows, this ceiling has to be revised, and, not surprisingly, since 1960 the debt ceiling has been raised, revised or extended 78 times.

The 29th National Conference of All India Bank Employees Association which was held in Mumbai from May13th to 15th, 2023 concluded successfully. More than 3,000 Delegates and Observers from all over the country participated in the Conference. Notably, Delegates from all the States including from Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Jammu and Kashmir took part in the Conference. Large number of young employees and women employees participated in the Conference.

The abrupt removal of Kiren Rijiju from the post of Union Minister of Law is yet another example of Prime Narendra Modi surrendering. In fact Modi’s two tenures are littered with abject surrenders. Almost to suggest that this is a flaw in his character. No reason has been given for Rijiju’s eviction. The Modi government has nothing in the form of an explanation, not even an insignificant exclamation mark!

A famous Urdu poet (shayar) recently wrote, “What can a statute book do when the sections of the law books are sleeping in the pages!” It was not merely a satire on the existing judicial system. He was commenting on the state of affairs: how not only the executive system, but even the judiciary has ceased to work.

New Delhi: Already out of contention, the Delhi Capitals recorded their fifth win off 13th matches as they dented Punjab Kings's chances for the play in the Play off of the IPL by beating them by 15 runs at Dharamsala on Wednesday.

New Delhi: India is clubbed in Group A alongside the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and IR Iran for the AFC U-17 Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers Round 2.

New Delhi: Indian Women's hockey team put up a gallant fight before going down to Australia 2-4 in their opening match of the tour on Thursday in Adelaide.

There is a chink opening up in the claim that India has been ushered in the group of five most developed nations in the world. With consistent fall in the GDP, even an indication towards upward move gets clapping, a myth that is carried forward since last almost a decade. It is a myth since it does not have roots in the reality. Since 2011-12, the statistical agencies in the country have been silenced by the government that came to power in 2014. The World Bank had earlier clarified drawing a line to define extreme poverty according to data collected in a survey, and stated that it is 1.5 dollar per day, per person. In India, shockingly, 23 percent of population live with even less than it. It has been the only available data since 2011-12.

Self help is the best help. Irked by the West Bengal unit seeking its help on issues big and small, national BJP leaders have asked the state unit to follow this time tested adage, sources in state unit said.